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Firearm violence is now the top cause of death for youth under 20, and for Black men. Join us for our virtual discussion to learn about the landscape of evidence-based approaches and their potential to reduce the number of lives lost from firearm violence.
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"The mental health care system in this country is broken—if something can be broken that was never built properly in the first place."
NEW
@thehill
op-ed by Emily Becker-Haimes, and LDI Fellows David Mandell (
@DSMandell
), and Rebecca Stewart (
@rebbstew
).
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✨ Congratulations to Fellows Eugenia South (
@Eugenia_South
) and Atheendar Venkataramani (
@atheendar
), who received a $10 million
@NIH
grant!
They will study environmental & economic interventions on health disparities in Black Philadelphia neighborhoods
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LDI Senior Fellow Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM, has been appointed to endowed chair as the David E. Longnecker Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at
@PennAnesthesia
@PennMedicine
.
Congratulations on this well-deserved honor,
@mlanefall
! 🎉
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We are thrilled to welcome Rachel Werner as the new Executive Director of Penn LDI!
@rm_werner
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✨ Congratulations to LDI Fellows Paula Chatterjee (
@ChatterjeePaula
) and Maggie Lowenstein (
@m_lowenstein
) on receiving the 2021 Milton W. Hamolsky Jr. Faculty Scientific Presentation Awards, presented by
@SocietyGIM
as part of
#SGIM21
Annual Meeting!
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This just in: Three LDI Fellows have been named to
@theNAMedicine
during today's
#NAMMtg
!
🎊 Congratulations to
@matthewdmchugh
(
@PennNursing
/
@Penn_CHOPR
),
@RainaMerchant
(
@PennMedicine
), and
@Dr_BrendanCarr
(
@Sinai_Emerg_Med
).
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.
@healthecon_dan
,
@rm_werner
, and Susan Domchek join 24 other LDI Senior Fellows as members of
@theNAMedicine
! Congratulations!
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Don't hold your breath for
#AcademicTwitter
to level the playing field for female
#healthpolicy
researchers, suggests new
@JAMAInternalMed
study. Women have fewer followers, retweets, liked tweets, find
@rm_werner
@janemzhu
@RainaMerchant
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❗This just in: LDI Executive Director
@rm_werner
, Senior Fellow Mary Ersek (
@PennNursing
) & former CICADA Scholar
@JasT_PhD
(
@NYUNursing
) have been appointed to new
@theNASEM
Committee on the Quality of
#NursingHomes
.
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👏 Congratulations to LDI Fellow
@katy_milkman
of
@Wharton
on receiving the University’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching,
@Penn
’s highest teaching accolade across disciplines!
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We're pleased to announce 12 new
#healthequity
pilot grants for projects led by 41 LDI Fellows & colleagues!
In partnership w/ “Bold Solutions: Dismantle Racism, Advance Health,” the grants support projects that target the effects of racism on health.
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Congrats to
@AmolNavathe
on winning ‘Best Abstract’ of the Payment and Delivery Systems Innovations category
@AcademyHealth
#ARM18
!
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Powerful
@NEJM
article by
@AditiVasan
,
@ShreyaKangovi
,
@kevinbmahoney
& Ashlee Harris describes a year-long program in which community health workers mentor and educate
@PennMedicine
executives to promote health equity.
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🎉 Congratulations to LDI Fellow Atheendar Venkataramani (
@atheendar
) on receiving the 2021 Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award from
@ia4phs
!
/cc
@PennMedNews
@OppforHealthLab
@PennMEHP
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Congratulations to
@AdrianaPerez98
, the recipient of
@PennNursing
's Graduate Student Organization Outstanding Nurse Educator Award! 🎉
#buzzworthy
#2020nurseandmidwife
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New study by Lola Fayanju (
@DrLolaFayanju
) finds the proportion of URiM surgical faculty unchanged over the past decade.
📈 Programs with more racially and ethnically diverse faculty had greater racial/ethnic and gender diversity among medical students.
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🥳Congratulations to Rachel M. Werner (
@rm_werner
), Norma Coe (
@nbcoe1
), and their colleague Sungchul Park!
They won the 2023 John M. Eisenberg Article of the Year award from the Health Services Research journal (
@HSR_HRET
) at
@AcademyHealth
! Read more:
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Congratulations to the LDI Senior Fellows who won awards from
@AcademyHealth
!
#buzzworthy
🏆 David Asch: Distinguished Career Award
🏆
@ShreyaKangovi
: Health Services Research Impact Award
🏆 David Asch and Jeffrey Silber: Publication of the Year
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We're still celebrating the big
@Eagles
win...and it looks like Ben Franklin is too!
#FlyEaglesFly
Photo by
@weinerja
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Led by
@Rsbeidas
, the new Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE
@LDI
) will expand on current
#PennImpSci
educational, workgroup, and programmatic activities - Announcement:
#impsci
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Welcome to new LDI Senior Fellow Barbara Chaiyachati, MD, PhD!
Dr. Chaiyachati is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at
@ChildrensPhila
. Her expertise lies in social determinants of health and health care disparities.
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During
#COVID19
, post-acute care shifted away from nursing homes, which saw their revenues drop by 55%.
Our blog discusses implications for the
#NursingHome
industry.
Study by LDI Executive Director Rachel Werner (
@rm_werner
) & Fellow Eric Bressman. ⤵️
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The idea of “nudges” to improve clinical decision-making is appealing, but which ones actually work?
A recent systematic review reveals that nudges that changed default options or enabled choice were the most effective.
More in our new blog:
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Join us in welcoming new LDI Senior Fellow Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH (
@eberly_lauren
)!
Dr. Eberly is an Assistant Professor at
@PennMedicine
. Her expertise lies in global health, promoting health equity, and improving the delivery of care.
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For critical access hospitals, Medicaid expansion was no remedy for their financial and staffing challenges.
On our blog,
@ChatterjeePaula
highlights her
@Health_Affairs
study with
@rm_werner
&
@kejoynt
, and points out two promising CAH demonstrations.
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We'd like to welcome our latest LDI Senior Fellow: Ashwin Nathan, MD, MSHP, Assistant Professor,
@PennMedicine
!
@ashwin_nathan
researches outcomes and health policy around novel cardiac technologies & pharmacotherapies, w/ specific focus on
#HealthEquity
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📢 Announcing the LDI-Penn Medicine Research Laboratory
Developed in partnership between LDI Exec Director Rachel Werner (
@rm_werner
) &
@PennMedicine
CEO Kevin Mahoney (
@kevinbmahoney
), the Lab will address pressing questions about
#HealthCare
delivery.
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Penn's Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) announced the second cohort of CICADA Scholars. Congratulations to
@AmakaEMD
,
@SalamaFreed
, and
@eriverarn
!
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Join us this Friday (4/10) at noon EST for a virtual seminar, "Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Communities During the
#COVID
Pandemic" with experts
@DennisCulhane
,
@ShreyaKangovi
, and
@Eugenia_South
Info on how to join is on our site ⤵️
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Congratulations to LDI Fellow and
@PISCE_LDI
Director Rinad Beidas (
@Rsbeidas
)!
Dr. Beidas is the inaugural recipient of
@Acenda_AIHI
's "Research Pioneer Award" for her work in the fields of behavioral health and implementation science.
Read more:
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We're excited to announce the recipients of our 2020 pilot research grants. Read more about the promising work of these 12 teams:
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Congratulations to LDI Fellow Atheendar Venkataramani (
@atheendar
) for receiving the Health Services Research Impact Award!
@AcademyHealth
#ARM22
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Congratulations to Lauren Eberly (
@eberly_lauren
) for winning both the Department of Medicine Fellow Teaching Award and the Martin St. John Sutton, MD Outstanding Fellow Research Award!
@PennCardiology
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Accepted in
@QJEHarvard
, this study by LDI fellow Abby Alpert and colleagues finds that the marketing of Oxycontin explains a substantial share of overdose death rates in the past two decades.
Read more on our blog ⤵️
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👋 Meet LDI’s latest Senior Fellow: Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, FNP-BC, MSHP, Assistant Professor
@PennNursing
.
@shoshiaronowitz
researches innovative delivery models to promote equitable access to substance use treatment and harm reduction services.
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We're excited to welcome
@abuttenheim
as LDI's founding Director of Engagement. Read more about Alison and her new role here:
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Congrats
@miteshspatel
! -- Mitesh Patel Receives
@SocietyGIM
Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
@PennNudgeUnit
@PennCHIBE
@PM_Innovation
@Wharton
@PennMedicine
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🥳Congratulations to our own
@HoagLevins
!
He was honored with
@Penn
’s Models of Excellence Award for his multi-media reporting and production that has spotlighted the work of Penn’s health services researchers for the past decade.
Read more here:
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Join us Friday 6/26 for a late-breaking virtual seminar on Policing, Race, and Health, co-presented w/
@PennInjury
.
Featured speakers:
▪️
@RRHDr
▪️
@EdwinLindo
▪️ John MacDonald
▪️ Charles Ramsey
▪️ Therese Richmond (mod)
Free + open to the public! 👇
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Maternal mortality in the U.S. is higher than in any other developed nation.
JOIN US this Friday, October 14 to hear leading experts discuss what a high-functioning
#MaternalHealth
care system could look like & what it will take to get there.
Register ⤵️
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"As female academics, it can sometimes feel like we are shouting into a void, with no one hearing what we are saying."
Read new
@PhillyInquirer
op-ed by LDI Executive Director Rachel Werner (
@rm_werner
) and Fellow Paula Chatterjee (
@ChatterjeePaula
) ⤵️
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We'd like to welcome our newest Senior Fellow to Penn LDI: Oluwadamilola (Lola) Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, Associate Professor,
@PennMedicine
!
@DrLolaFayanju
researches health disparities, aggressive breast cancer variants, and improving value in oncology.
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Thank you
@healthecon_dan
for your vision and leadership of LDI over the past seven years!
@JohnsHopkins
is lucky to have you.
We are pleased to share that Mark Pauly will serve as our interim Executive Director while the search process continues. Perhaps you've heard of him?
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining
@JohnsHopkins
as a
@JHU_BDPs
. I'm excited to be included among the stellar faculty at
@JHSPH_HPM
@JHUCarey
@JohnsHopkinsSPH
. Thank you
@Penn
and
@PennLDI
for 27 amazing years.
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🎉 With funding from
@gatesfoundation
,
@abuttenheim
and
@hthirumurthy
will launch Indlela ("the path" in Zulu): Behavioural Insights for Better Health! Read more about their
#HIV
'nudge unit' in the
@PennCHIBE
blog:
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LDI Fellow
@marionleary
of
@PennNursing
is leading efforts to bring nurses into the design and engineering of medical technology.
Read more on our blog:
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We are excited to welcome 18 new Senior Fellows this year! Learn more about their research interests and ongoing work, & make sure to give those on Twitter a follow:
@NancyHodgson1
@DrSteShi
@BBurkeMD
@ArianaMChao
@jaygirimd
@agingsense1
@oterocobo
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👋 Meet LDI’s latest Senior Fellow: Diana Montoya-Williams, MD, Assistant Professor,
@PennMedicine
.
@DrDianaMW
researches drivers of racial and ethnic inequities in infant health outcomes.
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New $6.4 Million NIMH grant to apply behavioral economics to mental health care:
@Rsbeidas
@DSMandell
@kevin_volpp
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NEW
@Health_Affairs
study by
@UtshaKhatriMD
et al. finds Medicaid expansion ⬆️ use of medications for opioid use among individuals w/ criminal justice involvement
On our blog, Khatri discusses the importance of Medicaid for this high-risk population ⤵️
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🎉 We're thrilled to announce that LDI Senior Fellow Meghan Lane-Fall (
@mlanefall
) has been named the new Director of the
@Penn
Implementation Science Center at LDI (
@PISCE_LDI
)!
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🎉Congratulations to LDI Fellows for receiving Top 2022 Awards from
@AcademyHealth
!
⭐️Health Services Research Impact Award recipient:
@atheendar
⭐️Publication-of-the-Year Award recipients:
@kit_delgadoMD
,
@khchaiyachati
, & David Asch
#ARM22
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✨ New Senior Fellow Spotlight: Kathleen Lee, MD, Director of Innovation and Assistant Professor
@PennMedicine
.
@katleemd
is the Director of Clinical Implementation
@PM_Innovation
, and works on
#digitalhealth
-enabled strategies to reimagine health care.
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Congratulations
@miteshspatel
, winner of the
@AcademyHealth
Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award!
#ARM18
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Policy makers have focused on advancing
#health
equity using race-neutral and race-conscious policy, but large disparities persist.
Join us and
@Health_Affairs
for a virtual seminar that will explore racism-conscious policy and more. Register today!
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Counties affected by auto assembly plant closures experienced an 85% relative increase in
#opioid
overdose mortality rates in the subsequent five years. Greatest impact among young, non-Hispanic white men. New from
@atheendar
in
@JAMAInternalMed
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Slowly and painstakingly, structures that perpetuate racism in clinical medicine are starting to be dismantled.
Our latest blog discusses how
@PennMedicine
researchers are challenging longstanding race-based algorithms and thresholds in clinical tests.
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Linda Aiken, the founder of
@PennNursing
's
@Penn_CHOPR
, was named a 2020 Living Legend by
@AAN_Nursing
, the Academy's highest honor.
Congratulations,
@LindaAiken_Penn
! 🎉
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Hi Twitter! My name is Mamaswatsi (or Mama). I’m a rising senior studying public health
@BrownUniversity
and an
#LDISUMR2021
Scholar.
I'll be taking over the
@PennLDI
account today!
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How can we leverage
#Medicaid
as a tool for eliminating racial disparities?
Join us next Friday 4/15 for a virtual seminar w/ leading experts Cara James of
@GIHealth
, Leighton Ku of
@GWpublichealth
,
@emma_sandoe
, and
@atheendar
.
Free & open to the public
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With a new $5 million award,
@vaequity
will implement Age-Friendly Health Systems throughout 54 VA health facilities in Pennsylvania.
Read more about the project led by
@BBurkeMD
, Judith Long,
@rm_werner
, & Daniel Hall.
#buzzworthy
⤵️
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🎉Congratulations to
@AcademyHealth
Publication-of-the-Year Award recipients M. Kit Delgado (
@kit_delgadoMD
), Anna Morgan (
@AnnaUma
), David Asch, & many others.
#ARM22
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There's something unusual happening at skilled nursing facilities on day 20.
@ChatterjeePaula
@nbcoe1
&
@rm_werner
investigate in
@JAMAInternalMed
. New blog post --
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💡 Congratulations to
@SameedKhatana
on receiving an
@American_Heart
Career Development Award!
W/ mentors
@petegroen
,
@rm_werner
, Judy Shea & Nandita Mitra, Khatana will study how ACA
#Medicaid
expansion impacted disparities in cardiovascular care access.
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#NEW
study finds that neighborhoods with more tree cover experienced less firearm violence.
This work by LDI Fellow
@Eugenia_South
and colleagues provides more evidence that the built environment impacts health outcomes.
Read more on our blog. ⤵️
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🥳Congratulations to LDI Fellow Therese Richmond of
@PennNursing
!
She will receive the 2023 Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (
@AACNMe
).
Read more here:
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"It’s gratifying to see so many LDI Fellows stepping up to meet this [misinformation] challenge."—LDI Executive Director Rachel Werner (
@rm_werner
)
LDI Fellows authored 72 op-ed articles during the first 9 months of 2021. Our story:
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VIDEO: A study by LDI Fellow
@CourtneyBoen
found that on average, Black Americans are biologically about 9 years older than white Americans of the same chronological age.
The results support closing the wealth gap as a way of reducing aging disparities.
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“Failure” to achieve health-related goals may motivate some patients, while others may feel discouraged or demoralized. Shreya Kangovi & David Asch on importance of addressing this in the design of health promotion programs:
@JAMA_current
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✨ Congratulations to LDI Senior Fellow Rinad Beidas (
@Rsbeidas
), who was recently named Director of
@PennNudgeUnit
!
@PennMedicine
@PennCHIBE
@PM_Innovation
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Don’t miss a presentation on
#ImpSci
by
@RSBeidas
& co at
#ARM18
this AM. Dr. Beidas is part of a Penn team awarded a $6.4mil NIMH grant to develop a new center combining behavioral econ &
#impsci
to improve mental health care
@PennCMHPSR
@PennCHIBE
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Congratulations to LDI Fellow Senbagam Virudachalam (
@SenVirudachalam
), who will lead a team to evaluate
@MichelleObama
's Pass the Love meal kit program in Philadelphia!
LDI Fellow Karen Glanz will also be a part of the
@ChildrensPhila
evaluation team.
I'm excited to announce that Philadelphia will be our next partner city for our Pass the Love campaign with
@PHAnews
! We’ll be distributing healthy meal kits to families soon, and with your support, we can reach even more families in need. Donate at .
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🌳 Recent study by
@MaxJordan_N
and LDI Fellows Zachary Meisel (
@zacharymeisel
), Eugenia South (
@Eugenia_South
), & Heather Burris (
@hhburris
) links urban tree canopy coverage with reduced stress among pregnant women w/ history of anxiety or depression.
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🎉Congratulations to LDI Fellows for receiving Top 2022 Awards from
@AcademyHealth
!
⭐️Health Services Research Impact Award recipient:
@atheendar
⭐️Publication-of-the-Year Award recipients:
@kit_delgadoMD
,
@AnnaUma
, David Asch, & many others.
#ARM22
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Congratulations
@ShreyaKangovi
, for a well-deserved award based on a decade of work with community health workers!
#WomeninMedicine
@PennMedicine
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"Serving as a role model, mentoring other junior women, and helping to grow the success of the people around me matters." -
@rm_werner
in
@whartonmagazine
on blazing trails as LDI's first female executive director
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Congratulations to LDI Fellow
@Eugenia_South
!
Dr. South received
@SAEMOnline
's Early Investigator Award for her commitment and achievement in research.
Read more here:
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For 20+ years our Summer Undergraduates Minority Research Program (SUMR) has helped undergrad students from underrepresented groups prepare for careers in health services research.
🧵 Check out this thread to meet the
#LDISUMR2021
scholars ⤵️
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Dalmacio Flores, Andre Rosario, Sarah Wood, Antonia Villarruel (
@PennNursingDean
),
@jbauerme
, et al. successfully piloted Parents ASSIST -- an online video series to educate parents about sexual health topics pertinent to GBQ males.
Read more👇
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New in
@JAMAInternalMed
- Among public speakers at meetings of a
@US_FDA
Advisory Committee, at least 25% had a conflict of interest, a fifth of which were undisclosed, raising concerns about
#bias
in public engagement:
@UPenn_MedEthics
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LDI Director of Engagement
@abuttenheim
(
@PennCHIBE
/
@PennNursing
) testified before
@HouseScience
about ways to address COVID-19
#vaccine
hesitancy.
Buttenheim detailed the 5️⃣ most important solutions for Congress to endorse, fund, and promote.
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In
@JAMAInternalMed
,
@ChatterjeePaula
&
@rm_werner
find that Medicaid expansion improved safety net hospitals’ finances, but may not have improved quality.
On our blog, some potential reasons:
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.
@AmolNavathe
,
@miteshspatel
& team awarded $600,000 grant to study ways to reduce unnecessary
#opioid
prescribing in the ER:
@DonaghueFnd
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👋 Meet LDI’s latest Senior Fellow: Ramy Sedhom, MD, Assistant Professor,
@PennMedicine
.
@ramsedhom
's clinical and research interests are in cancer care delivery.
Welcome to Penn LDI!
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We're excited to host
@colleenlbarry
,
@JeffKHom
,
@zacharymeisel
,
@YngvildOlsen
,
@drJoshS
on a virtual panel moderated by
@JMPerroneMD
to discuss Battling the Opioid Crisis During
#COVID19
! Free + open to the public!
Join us next Friday 5/8 at 12pm ET ⤵️
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🗣️ Introducing our latest Senior Fellow: Bridgette Brawner, PhD, MDiv, APRN, Associate Professor
@PennNursing
.
@DrBMBrawner
uses novel approaches including mixed methods research & GIS mapping to prevent disease and promote
#healthequity
. Welcome to LDI!
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As an emergency medicine physician,
@JMPerroneMD
has been involved in thousands of resuscitations. This one, on a Philadelphia subway, was different.
@weinerja
tells the story in
@PhillyInquirer
:
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